Edward Gardiner Abbott was the eldest son of Hon. Josiah G.
Abbott, and was born in Lowell September 29, 1840. He was fitted for college at
the Lowell High School, and graduated at Harvard College in I860. Immediately
on graduating he began the study of the law with great zeal and industry and
with high promise of success. He was commissioned a captain in the Second
Massachusetts Volunteers May 24, 1861. After a brief service with distinction
he was killed in the battle of Cedar Mountain August 9, 1862. See Harvard
Memorial Biographies, vol. ii. pp. 82-96; Brown's Harvard University in the
War, p. 134. —Eds.
SOURCE: Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, Third Series, Volume 1, June Meeting, 1907, p. 123
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